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Welcome to the final round of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! After outliving billion-dollar apps with billions of users all month long, Calculator was finally eliminated by Flashlight in yesterday's tournament. Today's winner will officially wear the crown and it all...Read more...

While the new DC movie universe isn't coming until 2025 with Superman, there's still a hope for the old films to live on, either in their own pocket universe or in the new breed of movies. Or more specifically, there's still a hope that Wonder Woman's story will live on.Read more...

Earlier this year, The Lego Movie celebrated its 10-year anniversary. While the franchise was all over the 2010s with spinoffs for that movie's Batman (as voiced by Will Arnett) and its actual Ninjago toyline, it hasn't been seen since Lego Movie 2 back in 2019. Part of that can be owed to Warner Bros.' partnership...Read more...

Two lawsuits filed by an activist organization allege a conspiracy between county governments in Michigan and prison phone companies. This conspiracy has involved a quid pro quo kickback scheme" that eliminated in-person visits at prisons to boost profits for the companies, the litigation claims. As part of the...Read more...

The Hollywood Reporter revealed 27-year-old actor Chance Perdomo has died following a motorcycle accident.

Here we are again, gang: Glasgow Worldcon has unveiled its list of nominees for this year's Hugo Awards. Once again, Worldcon is changing locations: this time, it'll be Glasgow, Scotland that'll host the annual ceremony celebrating the year's best genre media like sci-fi and fantasy books, TV, games, and criticism.

Universal's been teasing a new modern take on The Wolf Man from Invisible Man and Upgrade's Leigh Whannell for a while now. Though it seemed like we'd get to see it in theaters in a couple of months, it's now been pushed back.

Ever since Monkey Man's first trailer debuted a few months ago, all eyes have been on Dev Patel's directorial debut. That it's coming to theaters at all feels like a stroke of luck, given that it was first meant for Netflix. But as it turns out, its entire existence was a saga in and of itself.

It's day 30 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we now know the first of our two final players. With more than 71 percent of the vote, the people have selected Google Maps! YouTube was eliminated in yesterday's tournament. RIP YouTube. Today we have two apps that are...Read more...

Last year's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ended on a somewhat down note: Miles Morales was trapped on Earth-42, chained up by that universe's version of himself, who's operating as the new Prowler alongside his still-alive Uncle Aaron. Gwen Stacy, meanwhile, had rounded up her own team of Spider-heroes to go...Read more...

Nearly a decade after It Follows and Under the Silver Lake, director David Robert Mitchell is back with a brand new movie-one filmed in IMAX.

This week, we took at Amazon's 1 cent iPhone 15 deal floating around online and broke down how much it'll cost you. Spoilers: It's more than a penny. Samsung announced its upcoming line of new OLED and QLED TVs, and we got a chance to check them in person. This, and more of the top product stories of the week.Read more...

This week saw a tragic event as the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore came crashing down after a cargo ship crashed into it. The rest of the week's new wasn't that better as Apple users were subject to a huge phishing scam to a Facebook plot involving Snapchat being uncovered. Check out this week's big tech...Read more...

The X-Men are so back. They never really went away-they haven't for generations at this point-but wow, has X-Men 97 got the world talking about mutants in a way they haven't since... well, the 90s. But enough X-talk! This week we looked at 3 Body Problem's problems with more than three bodies, asshole billionaire...Read more...

Freaky Friday-the 2003 version that's become one ofDisney's standout early-aughts live-action teen movies-is finally getting a sequel.Read more...

How do you say Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? Godzilla ex" Kong, like deus ex machina"-the Godzilla from the machine? Godzilla/Kong? Godzilla cross Kong? Godzilla and Kong? Does anyone ever actually even bother saying The New Empire at all? It turns out all of these questions are moot, because the proper" way to...Read more...

Every month, all the big streaming services proudly share their newly arriving titles. But what about those movies you've been meaning to watch, but just haven't gotten around to yet? Here are 10 horror and sci-fi movies leaving Netflix very soon; add them to your queue now or risk missing out.

I've seen Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace more times than I'm comfortable admitting, and I'm pretty sure Anakin doesn't run around with a yellow lightsaber in it. And yet, in Marvel's new comic, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Special #1 coming out May 1, that's exactly what'll happen.Read more...

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Innovations in theme park attractions have come a long way. Trackless rides are the way of the future at Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and other global amusement experiences.Read more...

Rich communication services (RCS) is already a big deal on Android phones with more than a billion users. Those numbers might be going up by the fall, as Google claims Apple will be joining the RCS party.Read more...

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This story is part of our Chief Innovation Officer Forecast series with Quartz, a business report from the front lines of the future.Read more...

Samsung has developed a naughty habit of serving advertising to even its most loyal users. I noticed over the past few years of reviewing devices like the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy S24 Ultra that the company has a habit of popping in with a reminder of new stuff it has coming out at the worst possible times-like in...Read more...

Citing a supposed spike in crime, New York State and New York City officials have launched a heavy-handed, police-state-flavored push to increase safety in the city's subway systems. This has included the controversial deployment of National Guard and State Police units into the city's tunnels and, potentially, the...Read more...

Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named Stargate," to power OpenAI's next generation of artificial intelligence systems, according to a report from The Information Friday.Read more...

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Well, Sam Bankman-Fried is headed up the river. Once a powerful crypto power broker, SBF's glittering Web3 kingdom came crashing down on his head after a multi-billion dollar scandal. It's a good reminder that not only does Silicon Valley produce a lot of software products, but it also produces a whole lot of...Read more...

As we learned earlier this week, adapting comic books can be a daunting task even for an accomplished work. Invincible has already taken more than a few creative liberties in how it has handled adapting the original comic, but its latest episode proved that it can still take a faithful moment from the books, and make...Read more...

OpenAI announced a new AI-based audio cloning tool called Voice Engine on Friday. While the company is obviously proud of the potential of this technology-touting how it could be used to provide reading assistance for kids and give a voice to those who've lost theirs-OpenAI is clearly very nervous about how this could...Read more...

As confirmed by a splashy Variety story this week digging into the future of Star Trek, fans have a lot to look forward too, including more series (Discovery's final season starts next week), Michelle Yeoh's Section 31 streaming movie, and a big-screen return. But one pocket of the franchise that's already endured a...Read more...

Whatever the seventh Scream film was going to be or is now, there was always at least one likely scenario: Courteney Cox had to come back. Cox is the lone original cast member to appear in each of the latest films and, since she narrowly survived the last one, we all expected she'd return.Read more...

Shelters of our ancestors, galleries for our artwork, hiding places for our treasures, portals to the underworld. Caves have meant many things for human culture through the ages, and still capture the imagination with their inextricable passageways and impossibly large caverns.Read more...

Of all the highs Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' sophomore season pulled off-intense action, Vulcan drama, familiar faces, and plenty more-perhaps one of the most delightful of all was Subspace Rhapsody," its earnestly cheesy all-singing, all-dancing musical showstopper. And if you've had the soundtrack streaming...Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday's contest ended in a stunning upset with Google Earth being eliminated by the ferocious Calculator app. We've now entered the Final Four and the remaining matchups bring some tough decisions. Today's face-off is a...Read more...

Being a top 10 podcast has always been a tough game, but some podcasters are quite literally gaming the system. Nine of America's top 50 podcasts, including Call Her Daddy, gave mobile game users points for interacting with their content, according to a Bloomberg report Friday.Read more...

For as vital and enduring a character across almost every iteration of the X-Men there's been, there's perhaps few mutants that are commonly misunderstood as Scott Summers, the legendary Cyclops. This is, in part, due to mainstream perception in adapted media, but it's also just that Scott has been around for so long,...Read more...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has a new plan to make the city's subways safe: metal detectors. But these are not just any metal detectors because these detectors come with AI. As for how well they work, it's not looking so good.Read more...

A Texas age verification law went into effect earlier this month leading to Pornhub pulling its service from the state. This week, the porn industry wants to take this law to the U.S. Supreme Court.Read more...

It's the ultimate marketing issue for a movie studio. You want people to see your new movie-so you tease something guaranteed to make them want to go. The problem is the filmmaker intended it to be a surprise. So, do you ruin the surprise in the trailers to ensure people go see the movie? Or do you save it so people...Read more...

A new social networking app" named Palmsy wants you to know that you don't need to have thousands of followers or be a celebrity to get a lot of likes on social media. In fact, it'll send you all the likes you want. There's just one catch: They're fake.Read more...

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, it may not have realized it was setting a company spokesperson loose on the internet. ChatGPT's billions of conversations reflected directly on the company, and OpenAI quickly threw up guardrails on what the chatbot could say. Since then, the biggest names in technology-Google,...Read more...

Somehow, a third Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is in the works. Don Mancini wants to make a new Chucky movie again. Another new Stephen King adaptation is in the works. Plus, Knuckles dons his cowboy hat, and get a look at the next Jurassic World animated series. Spoilers now!

There's nothing more frustrating than a bad internet connection, but researchers out of Aston University may have just solved that problem forever. A new method allowed scientists in the UK to send data 4.5 million times faster than average broadband, setting a new world record.Read more...

Only about 28% of Americans support banning TikTok, according to a new poll from market research firm Savanta. And while it remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate will take up the so-called TikTok ban bill that passed the House earlier this month, this new poll will probably give lawmakers pause about the next...Read more...

Alamo Drafthouse, one of the only corporate chains in America that is actually cool, is up for sale. Deadline reports that the cinema circuit, which was founded by entrepreneur Tim League in Austin, Texas, in 1997, is looking for a buyer, although it's not clear what the asking price is. Let us pray that private...Read more...

If there's any company obsessed with perfection, it's Apple. So, of course, it makes complete sense that the company would create a new device capable of wirelessly updating iPhones that are still in their boxes with the newest Apple software. The funny thing is that this new groundbreaking system reportedly looks...Read more...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is telling consumers to immediately stop using Elide Fire Extinguishing Balls, a product that claims to activate automatically in case of a fire and release fire retardant chemicals to put it out.Read more...

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Soar with Toothless and Hiccup at Universal Epic Universe, which will soon boast an imaginative world of Vikings inspired by DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon. Details for the Isle of Berk area, one of the five new cinematic portals of Universal Orlando's newest theme park, have just been revealed-and if you're a...Read more...